MAPEH 9 Second Quarter: Famous Baroque Artists.

Famous Baroque Artists

1. Famous BAROQUE Artworks and Artists

2. PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577- 1640) Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter. He was well known for his paintings of mythical and figurative subjects, landscapes, portraits, and Counter- Reformation altarpieces. His commissioned works were mostly religious subjects, history paintings of magical creatures, and hunt scenes.

3. His famous works were: Samson and Delilah, Landscape with a Tower, Portrait of Helene Fourment , and The Three Graces “Samson and Delilah” Landscape with a Tower The Three Graces Portrait of Helene Fourment

4. REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN (1606-1669) Rembrandt was a brilliant Dutch realist, painter and etcher. He is generally considered as one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art. He followed no particular faith, but was interested in spiritual values and often chooses religious subjects. Rembrandt shares with Rubens the revolution whereby painting came to depict the more personal aspects of the painter: his own home and his family. No artist has painted himself as often as did Rembrandt.

5. His concept of himself continued to deepen in grasp and subtlety, while his technique grew more daring. His well- known work was his “Self portrait in Old Age”. Rembrandt had produced over 600 paintings, nearly 400 etchings, and 2000 drawings. “Self portrait in Old Age”

6. DIEGO VELASQUEZ (1599- 1660) Velasquez of Spain developed out of the Baroque. He was one of the finest masters of composition and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age. He worked out solutions to pictorial problems of design that transcend the style of any period. Velasquez was the case of a painter who discovered his avocation almost at the very start of his career. The passion for still life frequently emerges in Velasquez’s art.

7. His famous works were: The Surrender of Breda, Las Meninas (The maids of honour), Los Barachos (The Drinker), and Maria Theresa The Surrender of Breda Las Meninas (The maids of honour)

8. His famous works were: The Surrender of Breda, Las Meninas (The maids of honour), Los Barachos (The Drinker), and Maria Theresa Los Barachos (The Drinker) Maria Theresa

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